lilairen

This journal is archive-only and I may decide to make previous entries private. Active journaling can be found on Dreamwidth, and no longer crossposts.

Photos of two of them under the cut assuming this is behaving.

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Originally posted at http://kiya.dreamwidth.org/675002.html, where there are comments.

I think I've got as much of the DW transfer figured out as I'm gonna right now.

Will continue reading stuff that's only LJ-side but now actually also reading DW-side and I think I've got a bunch of things sorted.

Please comment if you didn't get one of the flurry of subscription/access emails that I just caused with relevant handles so I can find you again.

Originally posted at http://kiya.dreamwidth.org/674696.html, where there are comments.

Three things make a post.

1) We have been approved to adopt catlings. It's about six months since we lost Len, and we decided it was time to start looking. We will be bringing home a pair of black youngsters, and we are trying to decide if we are also going to adopt a Holstein cat as well.

2) I have made formal plans for next ink.

3) The BIG IMPORTANT THING:

My short story, "Delayed Exchange Deferred", will be appearing in the Zombies Need Brains, LLC anthology, The Death Of All Things. The TOC will be coming out real soon now, so I don't know who all I'm sharing pages with yet, but the company website says "It will include short stories by multi-award winning and NYT-bestselling authors Stephen Blackmore, Aliette de Boddard, Christie Golden, Jim C. Hines, Jason Hough, Faith Hunter, and Fran Wilde."

So, you know, if you're just dying to read my take on playing chess with Death (and yes, they are playing the Ruy Lopez opening, that is not a spoiler), that's where you can go to get you some of that stuff.

The book can be preordered here.

You guys, this is my first professional sale. (ZNB hits the payment benchmark for professional sale for SFWA though I don't think they're officially recognised as a qualifying market from a quick glance at the site.) Also: also. Also! I did the thing! rasfc folks, y'all know I've been wanting to do the thing! I did the thing!

Originally posted at http://kiya.dreamwidth.org/674457.html, where there are comments.

It is the time of the end of February traditionally known as "many packages for Kiya" because of the conversion of birthday money into books and occasional artifacts.

Which occasionally leads to me declaring that I am currently playing the part of whispercricket, who is the usual recipient of Many Package.

Today's many package was, I thought, interesting:

A copy of Stations of the Sun by Hutton;
a "nevertheless, she persisted" t-shirt;
the annual report from my church, with little welcome package of notes.


Meanwhile, in semi-unrelated things, I am poking at a questionnaire from church for a little getting to know you thing that one of the other new members is organising, and trying to figure out how I want to answer "If you could invite any real or mythological religious figure to give a sermon, who would it be and why?"

Um.

Originally posted at http://kiya.dreamwidth.org/674165.html, where there are comments.

Just gotta wait for the right moment to post. :}

Originally posted at http://kiya.dreamwidth.org/673813.html, where there are comments.

If anyone is up for helping me brainstorm, I am seeking:

Suggestions for names/images of people who are simultaneously leaders of a movement/action involving the long arc curving towards justice and synecdoche for that movement/action in popular discourse.

So:

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Bree Newsome

as for examples.

Susan B. Anthony is probably the first wave icon most recognisable. Hrm. I know there were notable black feminists of her time but I cannot bring names to mind; must fix.

Gandhi. (My examples are rather US-centric and while that isn't a problem for the project per se I don't want to be explicitly US-centric.) Nelson Mandela.

I need enough visually 'I recognise this person as an Icon' people to make the ones who aren't visually recognisable clearly 'okay, even though I don't know who that is, they must be, also, an Icon'. (I don't expect most people would recognise Bree Newsome on the street, f'ex, but I suspect the silhouette of her up a flagpole would be appropriately Iconic.)

Miss Major, I think. Harvey Milk?

Crazy Horse. Some of the young people behind the DAPL protests.

Things.


Also seeking:

Iconic artists/musicians/etc. whose work provided rallying points for similar matters. Johnny Cash. Pete Seeger. Phil Ochs. Possibly Freddie Mercury, given Queen's particular cultural role and his death. Um. Things.

Originally posted at http://kiya.dreamwidth.org/673688.html, where there are comments.

Now that I've got things imported over and other such excitements.

Meanwhile: is there any interest in me having my more public-facing blog echo to here?

Originally posted at http://kiya.dreamwidth.org/673382.html, where there are comments.

Due to the moving of LJ's servers to Russia, I am importing my stuff to my Dreamwidth account and shifting over to post and echo. I hope that this will not produce a horrible spammage for y'all.

How I am going to manage the whole everyone's DW accounts thing: I have no idea. I do not have the spoons to be dealing with this, but fuck.

Just hit 'send' on submitting a short story in response to an SFWA-qualifying anthology CFS.

I hope they like it.

For, um. The values of the word "like" that are appropriate for that story, which is... not about things one likes.